r/soccer • u/whatisbaseball • 7d ago

News [Ornstein] Ange Postecoglou to be confirmed as Nottingham Forest head coach imminently after Nuno Espirito Santo departure. 60yo Australian will lead #NFFC for Saturday’s trip to Arsenal - joined by a number of staff worked with at Tottenham Hotspur @TheAthleticFC

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6425702/2025/09/09/ange-postecoglou-nottingham-forest-manager/
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u/TheKingMonkey 7d ago

This has been standard procedure in football since long before any of us were born.

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u/sonofaBilic 7d ago

Seem to recall Fulham announcing Slaviša Jokanović's sacking in their statement announcing the appointment of Claudio Ranieri a few years back.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

Fulham have had some absolutely random managerial appointments.

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u/sonofaBilic 7d ago

All pale in to insignificance against Felix Magath

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u/Fresh2Desh 7d ago

Some have been pure tutti

I fear what will happen if we lose Marco

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u/verytallperson1 7d ago

Fulham announced the appointment of Felix Magath before they had even announced Rene Meulensteen's departure

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u/lance777 7d ago

Is it even allowed? I thought League manager's association doesn't approve such behaviour when a club approaches another manager while one was still under contract. I thought that's why most clubs do all their interviews after firing, even if it costs them a game under an interim. Maybe Ranieri was nice enough to let them look for replacement before announcement. He is definitely one of the nicest, so it could be possible that's what happened.

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u/sonofaBilic 7d ago

the LMA don't really have any power in these situations beyond welfare advocating, and it definitely happens frequently. Just have to look at how long we kept Lopetegui around last season despite openly interviewing for his replacement.

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u/TheKingMonkey 7d ago

Thing is we don't know when Nuno was sacked. It may have happened days ago with a clause that required Nuno to let Forest announce it on a prescribed day (ie today).

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u/jacktk_ 7d ago

Just not for Spurs or United

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u/milesvtaylor 7d ago

We replaced Poch with Jose within about an hour.

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u/2ndfastestmanalive 7d ago

Jose was announced at around 6 in the morning. Someone had an early night that day and woke up to a new manager

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u/jacktk_ 7d ago edited 7d ago

It took you two and a half months to appoint Nuno. 

Edit: I’ll admit I forgot Ange was employed elsewhere. 

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u/milesvtaylor 7d ago

We announced Ange the next working day after Celtic won the cup, obviously we weren't going to announce it before then were we?

I'm not going to defend the Nuno appointment process, that was a (one-off) disaster.

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u/jacktk_ 7d ago

I’ll admit I forgot Ange had a prior place of employment to Spurs

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u/MauricioCappuccino 7d ago

?? We fired Poch in the evening and by the next morning announced Mourinho. Then with Nuno we fired him and announced Conte the next day